British musician Mary Epworth's debut album, Dream Life, is
inspired by nature and landscape and inhabits two worlds: a dark,
ghostly English winter, and the light of an imagined idyllic California.

Mary
has been making significant waves in her home country since releasing
Dream Life there on her own label, Hand Of Glory. Overwhelming radio
support has included 3 singles playlisted on BBC 6 Music and ‘Black Doe’ picked as BBC Radio 1’s Hottest Record In The World. Much praise has come from national press, including Q magazine calling the album “Psych pop splendour... Experimentalism, melody and narrative co-existing in appealing balance” and Record Collector awarding the album five stars and hailing it as “A
work of bracing originality... Immaculately sung and graced throughout
with intelligent, song-serving arrangements and inspired production
touches.” This attention has lead to Mary and her band performing
sold-out shows in the UK including the Royal Albert Hall Elgar Room in
London. Recently Mary joined Boy George, Bernard Butler, Mark King and
Tim Burgess to form a one-off supergroup at the Liverpool International
Music Festival.

From the bold album openers ‘Long Gone’, with its brass,
synth-droned chords and stately chorus, the all-out fuzz and drum
assault of stand-out track ‘Black Doe’, through to the magical and
psychedelically epic closer ‘Ray Of Sunlight’, Dream Life is swirling,
lush and mysterious. Using analogue synths, space echo, and kosmische
drums to set rich atmospheres and create unique soundscapes, Dream Life
makes nods to psych, soul, krautrock, shoegaze, and even gospel, without
ever falling squarely into any genre.

Production and mixing of the record was also polar, with the
majority of recording done with producer Will Twynham in a snowbound
barn in Norfolk, England - coincidentally the exact area that was home
to Mary's maternal ancestors, and also to Celtic queen, Boudicca's Iceni
tribe - and the lion's share of the mixing performed by Thom Monahan
(Vetiver, Devendra Banhart) in Laurel Canyon. It's appropriate that
these places figure strongly in a record that maps feelings to landscape
and uses nature as metaphor.

Mary's influences for Dream Life include Iggy Pop's New Values -
the drum sound in particular was referenced so much in production that
the album's working title was “Old Values" - Todd Rundgren, The Beach
Boys (Beach Boys Love You's brutal snare and synth, through to Holland's
lush soul), to the progressive sound approaches of The Pretty Things'
S.F. Sorrow and cult studio project Millennium's Present Tense. Mary
recently interviewed another influence, fellow psychedelic nature lover
Linda Perhacs, for Shindig magazine.

Now it’s time to bring Mary Epworth and Dream Life to North
America. Highline Records is releasing Dream Life on all formats, and
Mary is embarking on a 36-date US tour opening for the stage show of
cult US podcast phenomenon Welcome To Night Vale*, performing with Will
Twynham as a psychedelic two-piece.

*WELCOME
TO NIGHT VALE is one of the most downloaded podcasts in the world and a
wildly popular stage show. The twice-monthly podcasts have topped the
iTunes charts in 9 different countries, remain a fixture in the Top 10
US podcasts and a cult hit the world over. Night Vale has also become an
equally popular touring live show, performing dozens of sold-out shows
across the US and Canada. Mary Epworth also supported Night Vale on
their recent sold-out tour of the UK and Europe. Mary’s song ‘Long Gone’
was chosen as ‘The Weather’ in episode 26 of Welcome to Night Vale.